Weekend Edition

I sometimes think we (the electorate), are like
drunken sailors, we lurch from side to side. Often we
take two or three staggering steps one way and
stumble. On picking ourselves up, we usually take a
step in the opposite direction. It’s all a bit like our
politics.
 
What brought this on, you may ask? Well in today’s
paper I read “the Borg” is back! I know little about
“the Borg” and no feelings one way or the other.
It’s futility of it that worries me. Two party politics
(neither the Liberals or Nationals, can govern on
their own), polarises the people. When it’s
entrenched and it is, neither side can see any good
in opposition. This in time is self destructive for any
society and we are suffering right now.
 
We have had other parties in recent times; One
Nation blew strongly through parliament. But like a
fart, it rapidly passed and left only a bad smell.
The Democrats, appeared like a “light on the hill”,
flickered and in a few days time will be snuffed out.
The Greens, still are green and until they mature
and address the needs of middle Australia will go
nowhere. Without a change in direction they will
wither and die.
 
In my humble view unless we get some FRESH
faces in politics, be they Independents or part of a
NEW party. Nothing will change and we will continue
to lurch from left to right and right to left. Not much
of a future for our children is it?
 
John A Neve